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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

  • #2
    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #3
    Alice B. Toklas
    “In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
    Alice B. Toklas

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #5
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    G.K. Chesterton
    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #10
    Roy T. Bennett
    “We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #11
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #12
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    May Sarton

  • #13
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #15
    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #16
    John Dewey
    “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
    John Dewey

  • #17
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

  • #19
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #20
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #22
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #23
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #25
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin

  • #26
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #27
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #28
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Where words fail, music speaks.”
    Hans Christian Andersen

  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #30
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell



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